Joe Biden is preparing to order the release of up to 1 million barrels of oil per day from the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve. This is how he is going to control spiking gas prices, AP reports.
At the same time, he is doing everything in his power to destroy the oil and gas industry. This misuse of emergency fuel is meant to make him look good and get his poll numbers up while he continues to do the very things that will down the road make our gas and oil cost-prohibitive.
The overall release could be as much as 180 million barrels, according to people familiar with the plan, per Bloomberg. Oil dropped by $5 a barrel in a matter of minutes after the report.
Even the high oil prices [and the danger the EU is in] haven’t coaxed more production, the AP explains.
The president has seen his popularity sink as inflation reached a 40-year high in February, and the cost of petroleum and gasoline climbed after Russia invaded Ukraine.
Biden’s approval was 40% — the lowest of his presidency — in an NBC News poll out this week. And NBC is a Biden-friendly pollster.
The Biden administration announced the release of 50 million barrels in coordination with other countries in November.
After the Ukraine war began, the U.S. and 30 other countries agreed to an additional release of 60 million barrels from reserves, with half of the total coming from the U.S.
The Energy Department, which manages the reserve, says it holds more than 568 million barrels of oil. And those 568 million are meant for emergencies, not to make him look good with false hope.
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What every tax payer needs to realize is that Trump filled these reserves at a much lower gas price than what the Dems are selling it to the American people. This should be an eye opener. We should be buying this fuel at what the cost was when the reserves were filled. We are being scammed.
Currently we consume roughly 20 million barrels of oil per day. 5% is 1 million and he’s getting it out of our oil reserves. Currently we produce close to 17 million barrels a day which means that we have to get 3 million barrels a day to break even on our consumption. So we drain out our oil reserves at… Read more »
Why don’t Biden and the Green New Deal cultists just fire up all those planet saving windmills and solar panels to make up the difference? Cause it is now and always will be impossible to make up that kind of loss of fossil fuel energy with unicorns and rainbows.
You could cover the Earth with solar cells and wind powered generators and still not produce enough energy to run the planet. Not to mention the complete destruction of the echo system and massive killoff of every living thing on the planet. Plants don’t grow in the shade of massive solar cells and at an average efficiency of 15% the… Read more »
when “THEY” run out”’. “THEY” is US, we, me you, it’s OUR oil, not “HIS”. When ‘IT’ runs out,….WE are “out of luck’.
As soon as the reserve is drained a crisis will arise where we’ll need it and it won’t be there and the nation will come to a grinding halt. That’s the way these Globalists work, and I guarantee you they’ve already got the crisis planned out.
The reserves that President Trump built up by buying oil at low-end prices. Where’s the Biden to Trump “Thank you.”?
Get real they won’t even find his daughters for an interview. He has 2 daughters we never hear about isn’t that a bit odd? They dragged this demented old child molester over the finish line. They are not about to give Trump credit for anything.
The strategic reserves were meant for a national emergency like a blockage of the straight of Hormuz. Low democrat poll numbers aren’t a national emergency. If we deplete the reserves for trivial reasons what will we do if the real thing happens